Device for removing ashes from producers



F. HELLER AND A. HARTELT.

DEVICE FOR REMOVING ASHES FROM PRODUCERS.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 7. 1920.

1 ,363 ,1 l6. Patented Dec. 21, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIGE.

FRITZ HELLER AND ADOLF HARTELT, OF KASNIA'U, NEAR PILSEN, CZECHO-SLOVAKIA.

DEVICE FOR REMOVING ASHES FROM PRODUCERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 21. 1920.

Application filed October 7, 1920. Serial No. 415,448.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRrrz HELLER and AooLF' HARTELT, citizensof the Republic of Czecho-Slovakia, and residing at Kasn'iau, near Pilsen, Czecho-Slovakia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Removing Ashes from Producers, of which the following is a specification. I

This invention relates to a device for automatically removing ashes from producers which have no grates and in which an ash-pit terminates in horizontal guttershaped troughs. By this invention there is mounted in each gutter at the end opposite the discharge opening, a fiap,'p1voted or hinged on a horizontal axis at the end of the ash-pit, which oscillates in the longitudinal direction of .the trough and thereby pushes the column of ashes in the said direction.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 shows a vertical section of the lower part of a gas producer constructed without a grate, together with the automatic device for removing the ashes. Fig. 2 is a section on line A-B of Fig. 1.

In continuation of the lower end of the ash-pit a is an iron casting 6 containing gutters which open, as at 0, into a conveyer trough d. The rear portion of each gutter is constructed as a kind of casing for the flap whichis to forward the ashes-which have collected in the gutter. The flap or tongue f, arranged at the end opposite the discharge opening, is adapted to oscillate .on an axis 9 at the end of the ash-pit under action of a rod h and crank '71 on a shaft gt. As shown the crank mechanism is arranged at the rear side of the flap 7. The ashes in the gutter in front of the flap f are pushed of the gutters to forward at every forward movement of the flap toward the conveyer trough at. As the flap performs its backward movement a further quantity of ashes falls from the ash- In consequenceof the distribution of the ashes among several streams corresponding with the number of the gutters and the provision of a flap operating in each a uniform removal of the ashes is obtained.

We claim:

The combination witha grateless producer having anopen lower end, of a plurality of parallel gutters arranged below the lower end of said producer adapted to contain water and having curved surfaces at one side of the producer, a discharge conduit arranged at an angle to said gutters, adapted to contain water and communicating with the latter, a conveyer located in the discharge conduit, a pivotally mounted flap I located at the curved end of each gutter and having its pivot located at the axis of curva ture'hf'the gutter, a crank shaft provided with a number of crank portions, and connecting rodscoupling the rear portions of said flaps to the crank portions of the shaft, whereby rotation of said shaft will cause said flaps to oscillate in the curved portions force ashes along the gutters Without permitting the entrance of air into the gutters.

In testimony whereof we have afiixed oui signatures. I

FRITZ HELLER. ADOLF HARTELT. 

